A new study describes a type of cartilage that may have been discovered, forgotten and found again at several points in ...

Cartilage is a semi ... in an extracellular matrix of collagen fibres, proteoglycans and other, noncollagenous proteins. The three main forms of cartilage are hyaline cartilage, fibrocartilage ...

Hyaline cartilage helps bones slide smoothly ... The cells within these tissues are surrounded by lots of collagen and elastic fibers, the proportions of which give each type of cartilage its ...